[dundee] Taylug Weekly Articles 8 - POMS

[Gary Short]

-------- Original Message --------
> From: Robert McWilliam <rmcw at allmail.net>
> Sent: 05 February 2008 11:26
> To: gary at garyshort.org, Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [dundee] Taylug Weekly Articles 8 - POMS
> 
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 02:32:05AM -0800, Gary Short wrote:
> > > You can quibble the numbers (I mostly made them up) 
> > 
> > I do. You base your arguement on the unit cost arguing that you
> > couldn't get much of a teacher for $100; true enough. However, I
> > argue the point on the total development cost, all the R&D all the
> > shipping, everything. I believe the total must come to millions of
> > dollars. Now that would buy you a lot of teachers in the third
> > world.
> 
> I was talking about the investment per pupil[1]. How do you think the
> numbers change just because we are talking about a large number of
> pupils? 

LOL, I can see that we're not going to agree on this; I just take the view that if you have a multi million dollar investment to make in the future of kids in the developing world I'd spend it on teachers every time. Others would spend it on wind-up laptops; that's cool too, whatever floats your boat I guess.

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Cheers,
Gary
http://www.garyshort.org